Subscribe by EmailTeen arrested after offering to sell his vote on eBay
July 5, 2008 by Mark O'Neill |By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Many people are looking forward to this November’s presidential elections. Some are looking forward to voting in a new president and ushering in a new era, but others are looking forward to it for other reasons - financial opportunities. A teen has been arrested and charged after allegedly offering to sell his vote on eBay.
Now that he’s been caught, what’s his defense? “It was a joke”.
If so, Minnesota prosecutors are apparently not seeing the funny side. They are charging Max P. Sanders with a rarely used 1893 state law that makes it illegal to buy or sell a vote. If he is convicted (and I fail to see how he can get off this charge), the maximum penalty is 5 years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
The prosecutor’s office said : “There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, ‘I can be bought.’”
So I guess the moral of this tale is, think twice before listing that “funny” auction on eBay. You might end up with a cop and a prosecutor at your front door quoting a 115 year old law at you.
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I would also say it’s time that 115 year old law was updated!
soldpromised your vote. Perfectly sensible law.As Pidgin says, what’s the difference between what Sanders did and a politican holding a fund raising dinner to get your vote?
“There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, ‘I can be bought.’”
That, in and of itself is a joke.
Maybe that was true THEN…but now, we fight to get whatever the f* we want from other countries. America is a joke and this kid was trying to send a message.
George Bush can be bought. So why not someones vote?
I very much doubt this kid would have gone through with it.
This is stupid. Worry about real problems, like the oil and food crisis.
F* hypocritical society we live in. Yeah go give the 18 year old kid shit while meanwhile we’re dropping bombs on civilians. Awesome. THATS a joke.